The next time you’re out having the best meal of the week or month or year, just remember it’s the icing on the cake to the good life when you find a new place or experience that is memorable. Our preacher of the American Dream, Leonard Raskin, joins Nestor in a search for that next best meal. Even if it’s a hoagie at the foot of the Delaware Memorial Bridge…
Nestor Aparicio celebrates WNST’s 27th anniversary by sharing his favorite Maryland crab cake tour destinations and personal food experiences. He plans to visit five crab cake spots, including Cocos, Costas, and Pizza John’s. Nestor recalls a memorable wedding cake from Patisserie Poupon and discusses the joy of discovering new food places. He highlights a recent visit to Ioannoni’s Specialty Sandwiches in Delaware, praising their Italian roast beef sandwich. Leonard Raskin, a financial advisor, shares his passion for helping people enjoy their wealth and mentions attending the Orioles Hall of Fame induction for Tom Davis and Joe Orsulak.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Try the Italian roast beef sandwich at Ioannoni’s Specialty Sandwiches in New Castle, Delaware.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Watch the movie “…And Justice for All” and look for Tom Davis’ cameo.
- [ ] Provide Nestor with recommendations for his list of 27 favorite food experiences.
Outline
Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Anniversary Celebration
- Nestor Aparicio announces the Maryland crab cake tour in Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate the station’s 27th anniversary.
- He mentions booking various officials and politicians for the event, emphasizing the power of Maryland lottery tickets.
- Nestor plans to press his luck by doing five crab cake tours in a row, visiting different restaurants like Cocos, Costas, and Pizza John’s.
- Leonard Raskin joins the conversation, and Nestor shares his current food experience, a Gateau Breton from Patisserie Poupon.
Patisserie Poupon and Local Businesses
- Nestor reminisces about a beautiful cake made by Patisserie Poupon for a party at Ruth’s Chris Steak House.
- He highlights the American dream represented by local franchisees and bricks and mortar businesses serving unique food.
- Speaker 1 shares a personal memory of their wedding cake made by Patisserie Poupon, describing it as delicious and beautifully crafted.
- The conversation touches on the Gateau Breton, comparing it to wedding cake in a cookie form, and its vanilla, lemony, and buttery flavors.
Nestor’s Anniversary Celebrations and Food Discoveries
- Nestor reflects on past anniversary shows, mentioning notable guests like Dave Winfield and Marty Bass.
- He discusses his tradition of doing something fun each year, such as crab cakes, breweries, and crab soup.
- Nestor shares his recent experience with a watermelon, explaining how he selects a good one and the joy of finding perfect peaches and corn.
- He emphasizes the importance of discovering new places to eat and the excitement of trying new foods.
Food Recommendations and Personal Preferences
- Nestor talks about his criteria for recommending places to eat, comparing it to making an album list for an island.
- He mentions his love for crab cakes and the challenge of deciding which ones to include in his top 27 list.
- Leonard shares his fond memories of Oregon Grill’s cold peach soup and chocolate terrine, describing them as exceptional.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss their favorite desserts, with Nestor preferring strawberry shortcake and Leonard enjoying chocolate.
Traveling and Food Experiences
- Nestor recounts his recent trip to see Styx in Camden, New Jersey, and his search for a good cheese steak.
- He shares his experience at Claymont Steak Company, praising their legendary cheese steaks and the convenience of the location.
- Nestor describes his decision to try a new place for his cheese steak, finding a highly-rated sub shop in Delaware called Ioannoni’s Specialty Sandwiches
- He details his interaction with the owner, Mike, and the delicious Italian roast beef sandwich he ordered.
Orioles Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
- Leonard shares his experience attending the Orioles Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Tom Davis and Joe Orsulak.
- He mentions the presence of Jim Palmer, Tom Davis’s longtime friend, and the emotional speeches given by the inductees.
- Nestor reminisces about Pat Gates, an original Orioles advocate, and their shared experiences at the events.
- Leonard highlights the significance of the event, noting the packed venue and the heartfelt speeches by the inductees.
Tom Davis’s Extra Role in “And Justice for All”
- Nestor reveals that Tom Davis had a small role in the movie “And Justice for All,” filmed in Baltimore.
- He shares his excitement about discovering this fact and plans to watch the movie with Leonard.
- Leonard and Nestor discuss the importance of supporting local businesses and the joy of discovering hidden gems.
- Nestor emphasizes the importance of sharing good food experiences and the impact it can have on others.
Leonard’s Financial Advice and Personal Stories
- Leonard talks about his work in helping people manage their money and the importance of planning for the future.
- He shares a personal story about a client who referred him to a friend, highlighting the value of word-of-mouth referrals.
- Leonard discusses the challenges of dealing with unexpected issues like death, disability, and lawsuits.
- Nestor and Leonard reflect on the importance of enjoying life and spending money on experiences that bring happiness.
Nestor’s Upcoming Food Tours and Favorites
- Nestor mentions his upcoming plans for the Maryland crab cake tour and the various restaurants he will visit.
- He shares his excitement about discovering new food items at each location, such as coconut shrimp and crab Imperial.
- Leonard and Nestor discuss their favorite foods, with Leonard mentioning his love for burger cookies and Nestor sharing his fondness for Hawaiian butter cookies.
- Nestor emphasizes the importance of trying new foods and sharing good recommendations with others.
Final Thoughts and Future Plans
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of enjoying food and the joy it brings to people’s lives.
- Leonard shares his plans for the summer, helping people manage their money and enjoy their wealth.
- Nestor reflects on the success of his food tours and the positive feedback he has received from participants.
- They conclude the conversation with a shared appreciation for good food and the experiences it brings.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Maryland crab cake tour, 27th anniversary, Patisserie Poupon, Gateau Breton, local businesses, American dream, wedding cake, cold peach soup, chocolate terrine, Fiesta Mexicana, Tres Leches cake, Italian roast beef, Delaware Memorial Bridge, Ion Own Ease, Orioles Hall of Fame.
SPEAKERS
Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 task Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. Happy Summer. Happy 27th anniversary to us. My treat to you is going to be sharing 27 very tasty places. Tastiness is the hashtag out there we’re gonna do on the Maryland crab cake tour this week in Ocean City, Maryland. We’re gonna be doing that this week at the convention center on Thursday and Friday. Just a book the controller. I’m booking county executives, I’m booking mayors, I’m booking Democrats, I’m booking Republicans, I’m booking people who don’t even want to say what they believe in but I believe in the power of the Maryland lottery tickets bring people together because I had lucky sevens doublers. This is great because it’s our 27th anniversary, which I’m going to change my logo. Jessica made a beautiful logo just the way I wanted it done. I’m also going to press my luck with the Whammy by doing five crab cake tours shows in a row, beginning next Thursday and Friday. We’re going to be Cocos. We’re going to be a Costas, we’re going to be fade least. We’re going to be pizza Johns. We’re going to be slant, because we’re counting down my 27 favorite things to eat, and Leonard Raskin is about to join us here. You asked me what I was eating. I’m eating some remnants of day 26 was which was patisserie Poupon. I get this. Gateau Breton, I don’t know how to say it. Basically, it’s a giant butter cookie that is delicious with tea and with coffee in the morning. It’s like a cookie, but it’s more like denser than that. I don’t know what it is, man, it’s
Leonard Raskin 01:42
French, don’t they call it a biscuit over there. I think it’s a biscuit
Nestor Aparicio 01:45
or whatever French call it. I call it
Leonard Raskin 01:49
great bakery. It’s a fabulous place. They
Nestor Aparicio 01:52
did the cake when my wife’s donor, Neal’s came, you may have been at this party. I don’t know. We do a party of Ruth. Chris, yeah, um, when he came in that one week, I took him all around the country back in like 15, so 10 years ago, and that was 16, actually nine years ago. And they made a an unbelievably beautiful cake. My friend was associated with the Delta hotel downtown, who did business with them, and there was a little patisserie Poupon, and they did this beautiful cake. But I’m trying to feature and you appreciate this. You’re a local firm. You’re representing people in the American dream. I’m meeting people, local people who have the American dream. You know what I mean, like local franchisees, local bricks and mortar businesses, local people serving delicious food in unique ways, things that I can only get. I mean, I can’t make pastries like they do a patisserie poop. It’s
Leonard Raskin 02:50
amazing. They made, they made my wedding cake. 31 years ago, he crafted a beautiful cake. My wife wanted swans on the cake, on the side, on the round of the cake, were swans with, with the fondant. And it was a, it was like an almond, or like a pecan, butter, cream, sugar, cake. You Oh, dude, it was, it was delicious. You know, one of the best things thinking back, one of the best times before, you know, planning the wedding was out tasting food and tasting cakes. You know, you’re looking to figure out what bakery you’re going to have the cake made. So we got to go to all these different bakeries and sample cakes. I was in heaven. What we did that too. We did that better than that. We sample and cake. I mean, it’s 22 years ago for me, but, I mean, yeah, I agree with you and and I would say this, this gateau Breton, to give it away a little bit. It tastes a little like wedding cake, like wedding cake in a cookie. It’s very vanilla, very lemony, very light, very buttery. It it’s like a pound cake. Ish, kind of, maybe less lemony than that, but just delicious. So I gotta tell you this, because one of the things about this 27th anniversary, because you’ve been sponsoring us for a number of years you’ve been through, I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 04:12
I found the tapes of my fifth anniversary, where, where Dave Winfield walked into the barn, you know, like crazy anniversary shows. I found the tape, I think is my eighth anniversary. Marty bass and my mother did radio together. They did radio together. That’s like. So, I mean, I’ve done crazy stuff around here, so every year I try to concoct something, yeah, that can make it fun. So 25 crab cakes, good times. 25 breweries, 26 breweries I was going to do. And I think you know this, I was committed to doing crab soup, like I was going to do crab soup this month all over the state every, every year this time I drive to the Eastern Shore, because I do Ocean City this weekend with make Right, right? I loved, loved, loved going out to Deep Creek because I had never been there before. So I would not mind. And I’m going to have the mayor. Frederick on this week, my one of my favorite bakeries in the world’s in Frederick bakehouse, great place, I don’t know that’s gonna make my top 26 but or top 27 Excuse me, but I the one of the real joys of doing this, and the reason I did it was, I’m trying to make people a little more happy. Like the Orioles aren’t making people happy, right? You and I were gonna talk about that, ravens might make people happy. They might not Justin Tucker was looking for a happy ending. We could talk about that. So in celebrating 27 years, I thought, like the crap soup was an idea. And then I started, like, with my wife and I, we get into this. Is this watermelon? She got me watermelon. She’s been away for a couple days now with her sister. She got me this giant watermelon at the farmer’s market. And all of the things you do you used to tap on the water. No, no. You look at the side of it, and if it’s white and dark and falling apart at the bottom and it has a stain on it, that’s the watermelon you want. There you want the right? So we learned about this. She picked up a water was kind of big, and she said, Look, I’m going away. I’m not going to help you eat this. It’s a $12 watermelon. You got a lot through it. And she said, but it’s a gold watermelon, and it looks like it’s going to be a real It’s really heavy. And I’m like, get it, pay five extra dollars for watermelon this time of year. I’ll eat it. And, you know, I get the ice cream scooper into it, right? That’s how I do it. And we have these little plastic browsers. So when it comes to food and discoveries, and my wife getting perfect peaches, perfect corn, this time of the year, we like corn at Costas last week, we’re like, this is a 10, this is a nine, this is an eight. We give the one the Bo Derek system, right, that we’re all familiar with here, right? Not the Russian ice skating thing, right? I mean, but the Bo Derek scale of, if I’m telling you that this peach cake is an 11, that means it’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever had in my life. And I don’t ever give out 10s my like I had a piece of corn that was perfect for me. It was just perfect. Right after Fourth of July, get better, and I’m eating it, and she’s like, What are you giving I’m like, it’s a 9.8 she’s like, what would make it perfect? I’m like, if there was more of it, right? If it was, if it was the corn from Gilligan’s Island, remember when he created the giant nuclear corn, right? So when you find a new place to eat, don’t you get excited. I mean, you eat all over the world. You’re an eater,
Leonard Raskin 07:30
absolutely when you
Nestor Aparicio 07:31
get a tip on something, like we talked about Eau Claire, Wisconsin, if you had a tip on a place, especially, you’re always asking me, and you take me up on my tips, like, because you travel all over the place. When I send you to Pequots in Chicago for pizza, it’s a damn good pizza. So I try to, and I only make a recommendation if I feel like it’s a 9.5 Yeah, I don’t make recommendations on eight. If there’s a city you’re in and I don’t know any place, right, I’m just not gonna, and I’m not 100% confident, I will not send you. So when I made this list here, okay, I really had to ask myself, if it’s my last supper, you always say I’m like, eat like I’m going to the chair, right? If I had a last supper, if I had a last meal, if I had a last month’s worth, if I knew today was gonna be the last day of my life, where would I eat? Right? What I do? What order would it be in? So I really had to do this thing, like, in a lot of ways the way I would do that album thing, if you’re on an island, what albums would you take? Thinking like, Sure, all I got. So these 27 foods, I really worked hard on whether corned beef was going to be in, whether Indian food was going to be in, whether snowballs were going to be in, and I literally wasn’t even about like, what am I in the mood for? This would be like, my level of confidence for how effing good this is, how consistently good it is, how many times I’ve eaten it, how many times I’ve craved it, how many times I’ve driven across town or across the state thinking about it, yep, wanting it again, having it once in my life, and thinking I gotta have that again, like I gotta get back to Queenstown in New Zealand on the South Island and get a Ferg burger. This was one of the greatest, like, literally, Google it. It’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever eaten in my life. So when I think about these things, and I take food seriously, for skinny guy who does a lot of hot yoga, thank you, Planet Fitness. Um, I would say that I found a place unwittingly in the middle of this tour the other night by literally just Googling a little bit and doing a little bit of research. And when you find a place and you’re like, this place is so good that I want to talk about it on the radio with let him asking this, yeah, you know, like, have you found a place recently? Like, like, if, if I were to give you the 27 list, we’re going to do the Raskin global 27 like, you love crabs. You love food. I mean, you do absolutely what you I mean, you’ve. Waved about silly things like the applesauce at Pappas. Like, you just have a thing about it, right? Like you just said to me, don’t not get the applesauce. Now I would tell you, Pappas, don’t not get that little potato thing. They do that little airplane potato. That’s all right. Oh, I love that. So anyway, do you have a thing?
Leonard Raskin 10:22
Well, you know, I used to, I used to two of the best things. You talk about the 27 if I was to put down to one of them, and I don’t know if it exists anymore, I haven’t been there recently enough to check it out. But back in the day, you talk about summer food, Oregon grill back in the day, had an incredible cold peach soup. What? Dude, somebody’s gonna send an email and say, I remember this to die for, Peach Cream. Sweet Cream. Sweet Peach. Was it a dessert? No, this was an appetizer. Look sounds like something I want to put on my lemon cake. Oh, dude, it was, it was outstanding. One of the never such a thing, you know, like, what is it? Gazpacho, right. It was a peach. Cold peach soup, cold peach. If anybody
Nestor Aparicio 11:18
has this recipe, this was at Oregon grill grill that long ago. 20 years ago,
Leonard Raskin 11:24
yeah, 20 years ago. I haven’t seen it since. They may still, they may have it on the summer menu, but now that Atlas is there, I don’t know this is, this is an old deal. And then the other thing that I used to
Nestor Aparicio 11:35
love was that before Teddy Bauer had it even Yes, oh, wow. Okay, all right. And
Leonard Raskin 11:41
then the other thing they had, which was to die for for dessert, was called the chocolate terrine. It was a slab, like a square slab, about a half inch thick, of white milk and dark chocolate. It’s like a ganache, like a cold chocolate, okay, go down
Nestor Aparicio 12:02
to patisserie Poupon and get the opera. I think, I think the opera is like, there. I really do. I may do. I’m being honest with you, describing the opera.
Leonard Raskin 12:12
I will check it out for sure, because it was, it was absolutely amazing.
Nestor Aparicio 12:16
White creamy. I tend to be more Strawberry Shortcake than I am chocolate cake. I love dark chocolate. I’m in I mean, I like chocolate. I’m a chocolate guy. But when it like, I like day 23 today is Day 23 and I would show it to you if I hadn’t eaten it. But I do have my Dundalk mug with the, you know, has the, literally, the old East Point poop tower on it. So I love that. And the GM plant, Bethlehem Steel, it has it all on has it all on there. Escape, uh, roll arena, all my Dundalk things are on there. But today I did the place in Rosedale. That’s Fiesta Mexicana, uh, family from Mexico City, immigrants, my people, Latin people, um, they’ve opened a beautiful place 15 years ago, right on golden ring, right by the my parents are buried right near King discount liquors, right where I coached vino ransom basketball, golden ring right next to past stories. Yeah, it’s called Fiesta me, kinda they do a trace Lake Chase cake. Oh, there you go. I mean, Tres Leches cake. It feels like it’s very plain. It’s very, you know, very white, very yellow, very light, very whipped, creamy. It doesn’t have a lot of flavor or a lot of fruits or chocolates or but I it’s one of my favorite things in the world. Jake’s cake. It’s so delicious, fantastic. I gotta tell you about this place. So, yeah, good night. It’s about my wanderlust, right, in traveling and going places and doing things. So my boy’s in sticks. And, you know, I love sticks, and I love bands. They play down at Jiffy Lube. And as much as I love Jiffy Lube, I don’t love Jiffy Lube the arena like it’s a long way I live in the north side of the city now. So it’s more like getting the Phillies easier. So sticks was playing on Friday night, yeah, with, uh, with Kevin crone and REO Speedwagon, whom I love, Aparicio was his favorite player. Don Felder opened up with all the eagle songs. With 10 Eagle songs, wow, yeah, Hotel California, life in a fast lane, like all of that, right? Really nice study music, right? So the sticks guys, they always invite me. They always call me. They’re just beautiful as a fan, as someone who was a kid, yeah, admired them. They were the first band I ever saw I slept out for concert tickets on Paradise Theater tour out of Reisterstown Road Plaza, so like in 1983 so for me to be at this age in my life and say those are good humans. They’re playing. I was invited my wife’s out of town. I couldn’t even find anybody to go with me. I asked old high school friends. I asked people, nobody could go, so I’m going to go alone. It was a beautiful night, beautiful night, right? So I’m going to bill and. Delphia, right on a Friday night, what do you think I’m going to want to eat cheese steak? Okay, now, now you know this has been done before, right, right. Okay, I’ve been to Philly. I’ve had 10 Philly cheese steaks, three roast porks at the places that they would tell you. I’ve been to Jim steaks, Joe stakes, Pat stakes, Geno stakes, I’ve been on South Street. I’ve been to Joe’s up in Fishtown with my dear I haven’t been to the palestra with uh Dick Girardi, but I have been to Joe stakes and had chick make a a cheesesteak for me with Todd random. So like I so and my favorite place is Claymont. You know about Claymont? I do not. Claymont is south of blue ball Avenue. Okay, north of downtown wilming, Wilmington, Wilmington. Yeah, right. Where the bypass you take either road around Wilmington. They meet in Claymont. It’s called the Claymont steak company. I’ve been getting cheese steaks there for 25 since Kurt Schilling was pitching for the Phillies 30 years. Okay, wow. Okay. I mean, like, so I would it’s right off 95 I mean, it’s like, you can spit at it. You get off there. You can pee. Order a cheese steak, sit down. Five minutes later, they’ll have it ready for you. It’s like Captain Harvey’s. They had the meat all spread out. It is a legendary cheesesteak place, and it’s worth it. It’s a stop in there. It’s great. I’ve taken busloads in there mistakenly because they couldn’t get the food out quick enough. But I think that highly of the Claymont stake. Now, that being said, I’m going to Camden, so I’m gonna go over to bridge. I’m not gonna deal with Philly. I’m not going Woodrow Wilson, Ben Franklin, right? I’m not going into Philly because I all my Philly friends bunked on me. Nobody was willing to meet me for a beer, get my car broken into. None of that was gonna happen, right? So I’m going, I’m just, I’m going solo, my wife and I, and I told you this, we did Chesapeake city on the way down to Bethany. We did that Elkton road back there. So I, Dude, I got investigative the way I did with crab cakes here three years ago, to find every crab cake I could find to the state and the place is worthy. And I’m like, You know what? I want a cheesesteak, but I don’t want to go into Philly. I’m certainly not going into West Philly. I’ll save that for when I’m going up to Upper Darby or or Ardmore, or, you know, seeing Tommy, when I’m on the west side, doing something else. Maybe even go into the man to see my buddy Toby, who Blumenthal, from Baltimore, runs the man. So, I mean, I love Philly, but I’m like, I want something new. I want to try something that might be awesome, right? Yeah, yeah. I found a place. Now I find a place and I look it up, and it’s 4.5 stars, and it’s got 1200 reviews, and it looks good. This is something for my 27th for everybody I eat with my eyes. Yeah, 100% I’m looking at everything on their menu, and I’m like, it looks delicious, and it looks like I’m not getting a cheesesteak tonight. It looks like I would get a roast pork at this place, or I would get what looks to be His specialty is Italian roast beef, which is a thing I used to get at the spectrum. Did you go to the spectrum to see the caps play? Yeah, sure, absolutely. The spectrum. Not only getting to the bathrooms was an adventure, and it was small ish and every tight, it was loud and it was obnoxiously obnoxious. It flies. I mean, it was a tough place to play. The ice was narrow. The rink was narrow. I used to sit so close to Gene Hart there that I could hear him call the games in the press box. So I my memories of the spectrum are just, it’s very well, you know, and I drank beer with Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen and Sammy Hagar under, you know, I met Phil Collins under this bat. I mean, like spectrum, Robert planche gave me a hug under the spectrum. So, but they had two food items there that were fantastic. They did a cone, a dipped cone, the way you would know a Dairy Queen cone, yeah, sure, but they freeze it, so when they hand it to you, the crunch on the chocolate crunches and the ice cream sort of melts and it doesn’t destroy you. At a hockey game, you can take it at a Sixers game, a hockey game, a Madonna concert, the circus at the spectrum, they still have those cones at the new joint. They do. I’ve gotten them. They’re 12 bucks or whatever. They might not have many more, because they got a Shake Shack in there now, but, they had them at the Wells Fargo when it was the Wachovia. The other thing they had in Philly, and it was right around the corner from the press box, and there was only one level at the spectrum. There was only one concourse right. They had Italian beef, and they did the Italian beef with the provolone and the hots and the roasted reds. And they would dip the sand. In the OSU, get it all, Yeah, delicious, right? And it was always delicious. It was always five bucks too much, because it was a sandwich at a hockey game. But I’m like, I’m in Philly, I’ll get the $9 sandwich. This is in 1991 Yeah, right. So sandwich, it would have been 450 at chaps was nine bucks there, right now it’s 1775, 2350
Nestor Aparicio 20:30
cards, right? And the horseradish is $2 more. So I used to get it was delicious. And the Chicago Italian beef I’ve tried places out there. It’s always salty for me in Chicago now, beef on weck in Buffalo, oh my god, I had a beef on weck at this place that makes me want to go to the Ravens game next month. It was so delicious. I had it with Luke. Do you remember the kids that raised the money for Mark Andrews after he dropped the ball? Yeah, sure. Those kids are really unbelievable kids, and I’m having them back on I had dinner with their dad at a bills bar up in Buffalo couple months opening day, when Luke and I snuck in with a man named Pat Patoka, a beautiful guy Pat patota, a beautiful guy. Had a had a beef on weck. That was like, I can’t wait to have it again. Yep. So this sub shop is located at the foot of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Okay, okay, so it’s right by the Wilmington airport. Yep, it’s right at the confluence of like where you would go south to Dover across the bridge into Wilmington. Get off to pee at Christiana mall, a little north of Christiana. It’s in Delaware. It’s in New Castle. And I went into this place. And this is how, like, I walked in, and there was a line at Friday night at the it was at three o’clock. Yeah, I went in 330 and I could smell the place, and I ordered. And the girl was very friendly, beautiful young girl takes my order, very friendly. And then I’m looking at the food. And I went down to the end. I had to pee, come out of the bathroom, and the guys are carving up stuff. And I start to look at the Italian beef, and I had ordered the pork. I looked at the I’m like, Dude, what? And the guy starts caring. He starts talking to me. Within 30 seconds, Leonard, I owned a business for 35 years. This guy owned the business. You
Leonard Raskin 22:21
could tell within the pride 10 seconds, my
Nestor Aparicio 22:25
hand trying my hands off, and this guy’s making sandwiches, and he’s got his Philly accent, but that Delaware Philly thing? Yeah, you know, from around here, you know what? I can’t do a Philly accent. I could do any accidentally, accident somehow. So he starts talking to me and and I said, I’m from Baltimore’s like, Hey, you got a good place to eat down there. I swear to God’s the first thing he said to me. And I’m like, Oh, dude, you just asked the wrong guy that. I mean, that’s what I’m like. I’m like, I gotta go out to my car and get a card. I don’t like I know your food’s gonna be pretty good, but I already like this guy talked to him for 30 seconds, right? And this guy, the first thing he said to me is, hey, you got any good places to eat down there? And I looked at him, and the first thing I said to him was, Well, you probably been to chaps, right? I mean, make, I make sandwiches for a living, right? I said, you own a joint. First thing I said, You always say, Yeah, I’m Mike. I own a joint. I’m like, All right, so we get to talking this place. It was the best roast pork switch by far I’ve ever had fresh broccoli rabe, delicious fresh peppers in house. He has hops. He was bragging on, no, I’m not a hot guy, but these were legit, right? There was a fresh chicken cutlet that he couldn’t stop talking about, but the top of his menus the Italian roast beef, right? And he didn’t even try to sell me on it, but I watched him make it for other people, and I’m like, I walked out, I got in my car, I got back out of the car, walk back in, and I put my credit card back at him, like, I’m gonna get the roast beef. I decide I smelled the sandwich I had in my car. After talking to this guy, I gave the guys 15 bucks, I gotta say, box. I went back in. I’m like, I want to give this guy more money. There’s your business, right? You know, I liked him. Place smelled good. It was clean. It came recommended. I just liked him. And the food smell great. I walked back in and I got this Italian roast beef. He deconstructed it for me in a pan with everything separated, and then he gave me rolls, fresh rolls with sesame on there. And I’m thinking to myself, This is why I’m doing my 27 places to eat, right? Because I want someone to have the joy that I am having right this moment, having both of them still left over. I’ve eaten Italian beef the last two nights. I’ve constructed it in my own little oyster with provolone, and I’m sitting here taking pictures of it and sending it to people I know, like you, yep, who drive across that bridge? Absolutely. And who go to Philly for concerts or ball games or this or that, or business or Delaware or whatever. Because like, when you find a great place to eat, yep, and when you send someone there that comes from the heart, right? No
Leonard Raskin 25:13
doubt, no doubt. Look, in my world, that’s what I say to people all the time. They’re there. I love what I do. I help people handle their money and understand what to do with their money, and I get paid for that, and I get thanked, generationally thanked, and it’s all fantastic. And then the phone rings, or an email comes in, and it’s Joe Blow and he says, Nestor said we should talk. Or, you know, Joe said we should talk, or whatever it is, it’s nothing finer than to have somebody that you’ve helped, provided a great service for, send a friend, a family member, and say this is who you should talk to for this. It doesn’t get better than that. So as a business owner, I absolutely get it. And here’s the thing, in my opinion, I don’t know about my world, because it probably hasn’t happened, or maybe it’s happened, I just don’t know it. Bad news travels way too fast in this world. And so if you don’t like something, you tell a million people, oh, don’t go to that place. It’s horrible,
Nestor Aparicio 26:15
like the Orioles Birdland membership that you don’t buy anymore, that, you know, I heard they screwed that around, dude. I mean, nothing, right? I mean, I don’t know what they did. I would rather talk about food this month. Let’s not so I did an hour that with Luke because I’m pissed off, and I can only be so outraged so often. I’ve only lost my mind three times on them.
Leonard Raskin 26:39
I just heard about it. Well, let me tell you this real quick again, when somebody refers you, there’s just nothing finer so, so I will give them this the Orioles advocates do the Hall of Fame. And so Friday I went to the warehouse. It was, I didn’t read the ticket started at 12, but the gathering began at 1030 so of course, Kathy and I, we got there a quarter 12. I didn’t realize the gathering started early. So we got there right in time for the thing to start a nice meal, a nice afternoon lunch. Uh, your guy from uh, QSR, what’s his name? Rob long was the MC Okay, so what Jim Palmer inducted, made the what they call presenting speech for Tom Davis. Been friends with Tom for 30 years, so i That’s why I went to see Tom and his family. Yeah, 30 years, no more deserving
Nestor Aparicio 27:42
if there’s an Oriole Hall of Fame, Tom Davis should have been in it years. Yeah.
Leonard Raskin 27:46
Well, here we here he is. And then Scott garso inducted Joe, or select presented Joe or golf buddies from way back, yep. And slacks, been to my golf events. I mean, just a wonderful
Nestor Aparicio 27:58
guy. Wayne Kirby. Wayne curta sure
Leonard Raskin 28:03
introduced and presented Adam Jones. It was fantastic. The place, Nestor, I couldn’t believe it. The warehouse, 350 plus people. Place was packed.
Nestor Aparicio 28:17
I’m glad that it went that well. I’ve been to that event probably 10 times. Yeah, it was great. There was an older woman. I’m glad you brought this up, because I want to talk about Pat gates. Pat gates, we’ve we lost her a number of years ago, handful of years ago. Pat was an original oral advocate in 1958 and she lived into, well into her 90s. Yeah, and Pat was a listener to the big band radio station that I was on in 1991 and she would call in on the show. And I started calling her aunt, Pat, yep. And she started coming out to the events when she was well enough to drive. She’d have her little beaded glasses. And then she lost the leg late in her life. And I visited her very late in her life here, but every year, because she was involved with the advocates, she would call me, especially once I got thrown out, that pissed her off. In oh six, she got really pissed off when I got thrown out, yeah, and every year she invited me as her date. So I was her date every year, every year, every year I flew back from vacations to make sure that I didn’t leave her to go alone. Yeah, and one year I didn’t go with her, and I think it was the year Messina went in or something. I just couldn’t it was like something, yeah, ate me up. I was on something with my wife, or something like that. But I went to that event every year. That was the event I went to every year where they mistreated me like from the minute I walked in, she she got, she got, she got tickled by it. She was, she was a rebel. She was a redheaded rebel. And I loved her, and I loved going every year I loved. Great speeches. I loved everything about it. It
Leonard Raskin 30:02
was great. It was great. Like I said, Palmer presented, Tom Davis. Tom got up and did, I don’t know, 20 minutes or selected 10. Adam Jones did two.
Nestor Aparicio 30:14
Well, you know, or select was on the broadcast Saturday night. And I told Luke about this. They all were, they were all. They all three in Yes. First thing I would say, Homer’s admiration and respect for Adam Jones, yeah, just other level, yeah. Other thing was they asked or select about what was like playing on losing teams. Kevin Brown, not a very good interviewer, quite frankly, better broadcaster. Interviewer, uh, ask him about that, and or selects, like we’re professionals. And I was like, Yeah, Joe, go for it. And that’s Joe or select tragedy in his life when he was I mean, just all sorts of things that Joe went through. And then, you know, Tom Davis, just in a general sense, I’m kind of shocked he’s not already in the Hall of Fame, especially given his relationship with the Angelo’s family that, you know what I mean, like, but um, my Tom Davis story, first off, he was one of my nice guy award winners 25 years ago. Yeah. So, I mean, I presented him, like, in that way, because I love Tom, yep. Um, his voice, to me, is the part of the voice of my childhood, right? He did a lot of commercials. He did all that kind of stuff, not just QSR, but here’s the thing I would always give him a hard time about, and he would always poo poo me about, is that one of my all time favorite movies is and justice for all. Okay, filmed here in Baltimore, okay? Al Pacino, yep, yep. You know the movie, yeah? John Forsythe, I mean, just amazing cast of you know, lots of people went on to lots of things after that movie. Tom Davis is in that movie. Tom Davis, his face is in a courtroom scene. He was an extra in that movie. That’s funny. And I swear to you, I watched it on videotape in the 80s or whatever. Yep, and I looked up one of my neighbors was in it too. He was one of the cops. One of my neighbors from my neighborhood was in it and but Tom Davis is glaring in it. That’s funny. You know, that’s one of the greatest scenes of all time. That’s funny. You’re out of order. You’re all out of order. This whole effing court shadow, or Pacino man TA, I mean, Tom Davis is in that movie. That’s fantastic. You didn’t know that about that. I’ll have to check. Oh, my God, Tom Davis to check. Listen, and I want you to don’t even like I know how well you know Tom, right? Yeah, yeah, tell Tom we. Nobody listens to us anyway, right? Of course, you and Cath, you get ordering on on your screen, in your man cave, and listen, do you stink? You got nothing up? Pick a night this week.
Leonard Raskin 32:49
It’s too loud a night this week. I’ll be in Ireland,
Nestor Aparicio 32:53
okay, but, but I want you to watch it for its art value, for the disco soundtrack, yeah, for the way it was shot. Do it, for the injustice and justice and privilege of judges and money and corruption. All of it came in the Nixon sort of and it’s Tom Davidson, dude. It’s old Baltimore, the old Baltimore scenes, right? And the cop cars and the Baltimore accents and the guy in the courtroom that says in the Baltimore accent, I’m a really big coach fan, there’s just all and there’s a lot of dark comedy in that, but you’re gonna watch it, and Tom Davis is just gonna appear on your screen. You’re gonna be like, That’s, oh my God, that’s Tom Davis. So there you go. Brother Raskin is here. He handles not just my money and maybe even Tom’s money, but half the money involved. We’re not half the money. Raskin global. You can find him out on the web. So this sub shop, I got to go back to this sub shop name. See, that’s, that’s why you stick around. You know, get a name. That’s my old radio technique, right, right? That’s right. And we’ll tell you after this, after
Leonard Raskin 34:04
this, that’s right.
Nestor Aparicio 34:07
And now a word from our sponsors summon it exactly. I’m channeling my Lawrence Welk now. All right, so I go into this place, one, a, two, I want to end it to so I go into this place, and I we are come out, and I know I got a sandwich. It’s going to be good. It’s leaking with its right bills and and the car is getting smelly. And I went across the dela Memorial Bridge up to 95 up to 76 Camden, I pull through just a really challenged town in Camden, New Jersey is really tough, especially if you come in that side street on Atlantic, right? So I come in, I park in the big Live Nation, lot of getting my 30 bucks, because I’m not going to give them 40. And I set up my tailgate, and I put my chair out, and, man, I set the food. I took a picture. I didn’t take a picture of the sandwich, because it just looked like it did online, right? I. Here. So I got roast pork, broccoli, Rob sweet red peppers, yep, extra sharp Provolone melted. I watched him dip the edge of the roast beef sandwiches at the end in June. It gives it that gooey deliciousness. I had him make the roast beef as a side, right? It was, can be deconstructed, but he had already made the broccoli, right? And I’m like, I’m gonna be eating 20 miles away from the you know, there’s no treasure Sure, across the bridge. I’m gonna get there, no problem, right? So I knew I’d be eating it within a half. It was so warm when I ate it, right? Roast and it’s also juicy. And if you like it, roast pork. I took one bite of this roast pork sandwich, and I had a beer at that point, right? Because I got my music up, I got my ghost speaker. I didn’t drain my battery. Need a hot shot, like I did at the hockey room two years ago at the ELO concert. So, um, I took one bite of that sandwich and I’m like, Oh, my God. You know, I mean, I’m never, I love my cheesesteak place to claim on. I’m going to be going to this place. So this place is in New Castle. Yep, it is called ion own ease. I O, A N, N, O n, i s, specialty sandwiches, roasted beef, pork, Turkey and steaks, hand carved roast beak beef and pork hoagies and wraps. Ioannoni’s Specialty Sandwiches! You know you’re in Delaware to call it a hoagie and chicken cutlets, right? And yeah, it’s, it’s five minutes off of 95 so if you’re going to Philly, or across the bridge, New York, or anywhere up there. I mean, I it’s
Leonard Raskin 36:48
just good places I’ve been. Just go get it, cross the bridge, come back, do what you got to
Nestor Aparicio 36:52
do. Great guy, nice fella, everything’s House made. He was telling me about all his food. And then, you know what he did? He backed it up. I like the Orioles, he backed it up. When I looked at this Italian roast beef and I’m in the parking lot, I’m like, I need another one. I’m like, cutting it apart. I’m like, all sloppy. I I had, I had paper towels. I’m making a mess. I was in my it was in my food, my Getty Lee food, man shoe. It was a mess. But that’s a good Sam. So what I want to create for you as my sponsor and friend letter. Because you don’t know the list, right? You don’t know the next 23
Leonard Raskin 37:27
days I’m waiting.
Nestor Aparicio 37:29
What do you know that’s on my list? Like right now? What do you know that I’m gonna do?
Leonard Raskin 37:35
I don’t know you’re gonna do. You’re gonna do some oyster somewhere. You’re gonna have something. You have something from fade, least for sure, uh huh, or something from fade, least, right? And as we already said, there’s a peach dish in there. Oh, but you already had the peach dish. There’s gonna be an egg custard dish in there, too. If you know what I’m talking about, it’s gonna be a snowball. It’s gotta there’s, there’s gonna be, let me give you a little
Nestor Aparicio 37:57
there’s gonna be chocolate chip cookies. Okay? Pizza. Gotta be a pizza, gotta be a pizza Absolutely? Well, I’m gonna be pizza John’s next Friday, so you can count on that, right? There’s gonna be in this there’s gonna be popcorn, there’s gonna be crab cakes, there’s going to be a lot more desserts. There’s going to be pies, absolutely, there’s going to be cakes, there’s going to be cookies, there’s going to be snowballs, there’s going to be pit beef sandwiches. Um, I think I left anything out, but, I mean, yeah, there you go. There’s going to be chicken, it sounds plain. There’s going to be a chicken and rice dish. There’s going to be a meatball
Leonard Raskin 38:38
in this before one of mine in your list. You know, you know, you asked about my list. I gotta go with a burger cookie.
Nestor Aparicio 38:45
See, that’s a big thing for you gotta go with a burger cookie. That’s one of your favorite things. Oh, you like icing then, and you like shortbread.
Leonard Raskin 38:53
Yeah, I’m all about that. Okay, all right. Now that’s a beautiful thing with you know what? I found that I got excited steam crabs, corn and a cob. Burger cookie, briars, vanilla ice cream. It’s, it’s the perfect meal. I
Nestor Aparicio 39:08
don’t need to ask you if you’ve been Hawaii, because everybody telling me, yeah, sure. Anniversary there. Sure you ever have those Hawaiian butter cookies, little short break cookies? Yeah? The Honolulu Yeah. I was in the world market over in White Marsh, and they had them there. I’m like, I bought them and for a couple of mornings with my coffee, right? I had my Honolulu coconut cookies, nice Dunker, nice Dunker, pineapple butter cookies for breakfast, sweet. You know it really is like to your point, you tell people how to save their money, right? The real joy is when I spend suspended, literally, $5 perfect on three pretzels at the Philly pretzel factory, and it makes me so
Leonard Raskin 39:53
happy, absolutely,
Nestor Aparicio 39:54
when they’re warm out of the oven. Just for that, there’s nothing finer, you know what I mean, and it’s. Sort of like what I’m trying to share with these 27 days here. Yeah, the Ravens don’t even they can’t even win or lose until September 7 and
Leonard Raskin 40:09
joy, joy. I
Nestor Aparicio 40:11
just want people to enjoy their food, and I want them to know we all eat 234, times a day, sometimes too many, sometimes too much, whatever. But like, I just want we all enjoy food. So we get something good, we get a good tip on somewhere to eat. We all line up. We want to go there and try it. And it was, I’m here to try to Yogi Share, share
Leonard Raskin 40:32
the life. Yogi said, you can’t get into that place. What was it? Nobody goes there anymore. Nobody goes there anymore, right? You can’t go into the place too crowded, right? It’s too crowded. Nobody goes there anymore. That’s the kind of place you want to go to. Whenever I’m on the road, you go to a place dinner time with no line. I don’t want to go there. You go to a place. You can get a reservation anytime. I don’t want to go there. You want high volume? No, I want the place that everybody wants to get into, that you want to go to, because it’s fabulous. That’s where I would have gone. Willing to wait in line for great? I am. I’m willing. I’d rather jump the line for great, but I’m willing to wait in line for great.
Nestor Aparicio 41:14
Well, it is. I did the fried lobster tail over Beaumont. There you go. There’s nothing on my list that, like, I’m not, I mean, I’m this guy from iones, this guy, Mike the random was the first thing he said to me was, oh, you’re from Baltimore. Where do you, you know, where, where? Send me someplace good to eat. Yeah. And I’m thinking to myself, boy, you asked the right guy at the right place at the right time about that, because I’ve put a lot of thought into this pal, yes, and in the middle of that, this guy makes me this Italian roast beef sandwich that was just like, I I’m like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I will be back. No doubt about that. Let her tell me what you’re doing here this summer, helping people with their money so that they can put together. I dude, I think it was $10.50 for this broccoli, this broccoli, raw pork
Leonard Raskin 42:06
sandwich. That was just what it’s about. It’s about using your money for the things in your life that make you happy, whatever that is, and knowing that you have the wherewithal to do it. Help you create wealth. Help you enjoy that wealth. Help you pass on that wealth and make sure that nothing gets in the way of you doing it. You know, too many people don’t account for the what ifs in the world. We all walk down two parallel paths when it comes to our money. One is the perfect path, growing that money. The other is the problem path, things that get in the way, death, disability, lawsuit, government rules, change things happen, so you gotta make sure that you have a great plan that is protected and buffered from the bad things that can happen. That’s what we do. We help people protect the plan. We help people grow the wealth, and most importantly, we help them enjoy it, and if that’s what their kids, their grandkids, parents, siblings, by themselves, out in the wilderness somewhere, spend the money on things you want when you’re able to enjoy it, because you know what, when you’re 90 and you haven’t been there and you’re not getting out of the house and you’re using a walker, it’s a tough drive To the Delaware Memorial Bridge to get a roast beef
Nestor Aparicio 43:23
iron onis, yeah, give a free plug,
Leonard Raskin 43:27
man. So you do it when you’re 50 or 30? Well, that’s like,
Nestor Aparicio 43:30
I went to see sticks the other night, and I was trying to muster up, like, what’s going to make this night more adventure, more fun than just driving to the Camden parking lot, right? I’m going to find a new cheese steak, and it might only be okay. And I’ll tell you what pizza John’s cheese steak here. I’ll put that up against anything. And I’m gonna say that next Friday when I’m there, because you I’ll say, when I put their pizza up, people come on, and they’re like, get the cheese steak. It’s the best cheese steak in the city, because cheese steak in the city. And somebody hit me, I think, yesterday, and said, You should do every cheese steak. Cheese steaks all over the city. Who’s got the best one? I’m like, Well, I’ve had a lot of them, and since Captain Harvey’s went away, by the way, Captain Harvey’s logo is right on my cup, so I’m never really too far away from there’s Captain Harvey submarines right there. Um, when I find great places, I I think that that’s the Maven in me. That’s the par revere that I want to it’s one of the reasons I’ve been successful for 35 years is I send somebody to squires or pizza Johns, and they’re coming from Randallstown like you. That’s right. You don’t know from any that you go over to my side of town, you go to Costas, you’re going to know the difference between a crab cake over there and it’s created crab over on the east side of town. I want to let people know and
Leonard Raskin 44:41
well, you know, the rules don’t say don’t get a crab cake in any state that doesn’t start with Maryland.
Nestor Aparicio 44:49
I would never do that. I would never do that. Well,
Leonard Raskin 44:51
maybe, maybe a spit in Delaware and maybe a spit in DC, but not really, no.
Nestor Aparicio 44:59
Maybe Eastern. Sure. I mean, I’m going Ocean City. That’s Maryland, what a Raskin is managing money. So I go back to Ocean City again and again, and broadcast from Mako will be there Thursday, Friday. I am going to be around all week. I’m going to be doing things with the nasty hashtag, tastiness. Tastiness is what it’s going to be. That’s C, A, T, T, A, S, T, Y NES and I and onis is not going to be in the top 27 but they’ve jetted in to the they moved to the top of the star as I moved north. And I, you know, I said to my buddy, he said, Did you get a cheesesteak there? And I’m like, No, but I bet it’s really good. I don’t know that I’m never going to get one, right? It’s like, this is what I’m doing on this tour Leonard is people go to Coco’s and they get a crab cake. You need to know about the coconut shrimp there. People go to Costas and they get crabs, and they walk out and they have never had the Oysters Rockefeller there or the crab Imperial. They need to know about it. If you drive all the way across town and go to Pizza John’s and get the pepperoni pizza, it’s fantastic. I get the pineapple, the pepperoni. But if you’re, if you’re not getting the cheesesteak there, you’re missing out. That’s all right. I’m trying to, like, let people know some other things to try. So again, this IO noni guy, I may never get his Cheesesteak. I mean, I I may never go by there and not get the attack. I may never get the Well, I’m gonna get the pork again, but that Italian roast beef was
Leonard Raskin 46:22
to die for other level, off the charts, in the top 50 and maybe the top 30.
Nestor Aparicio 46:28
I gave it a 10, and I don’t, I don’t give out anything above a 9.8 but my top 10, my top 10 List coming at the end of the ready. I’m ready. They’re all kind of 10s. I mean, there’s no nine point this whole list. Here is a 9.6 and above all 27 of these things. They are literally my 27 favorite things that I eat and coming up later this week, my Chinese joint that I gotta tell people about, as well as my tie joint, I got joints people don’t even know. See, you think it’s all about cookies and chocolate chips and egg colors. I’m ready. Going off the charts here, man. And it’s only I couldn’t even fit my Indian joint. I couldn’t fit my Vietnamese FA joint. You know, my corned beef joint got kicked out by, uh, quite frankly, my pancake joint. Okay, so they’re ready for that letter Raskin. He is here to eat. He is here to watch. He’s here to get ready for ravens football season as well, and here to help you manage your American dream at Raskin global. I am Nestor. We are W NSD and 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking food when we’re not talking Baltimore sports. But we all have to do it. You.
